Hello everyone.
I was wondering what's the difference between them, and can they atleast smoothly play AV1 video? 10% of my library uses AV1 and the Apple TV can smoothly play them even they are not hardware accelerated. So if they can that's a big plus.
I'm currently using Apple TV 4K 2nd Gen, and just wanna try out the NVIDIA Shield experience.
Thanks.
I can also send you some AV1 video to test, since i also had S905x4 box that fails to play them.
FYI I ran the shield for a year or two dealing with constant crashes if I tried to play 4k content (1080 was fine). I eventually upgraded to the pro and not only did the problem go away but everything just feels better and snappier. Highly recommend just going pro from the start.
No Shield supports AV1. Fire TV Stick 4k Max supports it.
Anyway here's example of AV1 on my S905x4 box, compared to Apple TV. I can send you the exact file to play on the shield
I have the the Nvidia Shield (2019) Pro, it has two USB 3 ports for connectivity, Gigabit Ethernet, dual band wifi, bluetooth 4, run android 11. Dobly support.
64 bit CPU (128 cores) 3 gb of ram; 16 gb of on board storage, a ssd drive can be shared to expand the native storage.
Any Android device with the S906x4 generation will have AV1 HW decode. But only a few exist so far.
Shield TV doesn't have AV1 HW decode. It's still far and away the most powerful SoC for Android TV (which is sad given how old it is).
Both models share the same SoC. Where they differ is RAM/flash, and included ports. The tube runs in 32-bit mode but I think the Pro runs 64-bit.
I don't have one, so I can't speak to the ability to play files smoothly.